Deuteronomy 9:13-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

13. The Lord also said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and indeed, they are a stiff-necked people.

14. Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’

15. “So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

Deuteronomy 9